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Episode #206 (April 19-20)

Segment 1 -- "Reaching Out to Our Veterans and Their Families"
Dr. Judith Broder, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and Zohreh Whitaker, whose son recently returned from Iraq, share their experiences of the effect of war and working with returning veterans and their families. Recorded by a Media Edge crew on June 14, 2008 at the St. Mark's United Methodist Church in Sacramento.

Segment 2 -- "Struggle"
This documentary, set primarily in Ohio, examines several conditions that lead to George W. Bush's victory in the 2004 Presidential election. This film places the audience right in the action with a unique "street level" perspective on the struggle to protest publicly or vote democratically in this society.

Segment 3 -- "A Candle for the Shabandar Cafe"
Founded in 1917, the Shabandar Cafe in Al Mutanabbi Street in the heart of the old centre of Baghdad, was a
cultural landmark, where generations of Iraqis came to discuss and debate literature and politics - a living repository of Iraqi intellectual history and one of the last places where people could gather to exchange ideas. Director Emad Ali had shot most of his film by the end of 2006, but in March 2007, a massive car bomb destroyed the Shabandar Cafe, all the bookshops on Al Mutanabbi Street and killed and wounded scores of people. Days later, Baghdad’s poets and artists held a wake in the ruins of the street they loved so much and Emad took a small camera and went back to film. As he was leaving he was attacked, his camera stolen and he was shot in the legs and chest, and his own story is an epilogue to his film about the Shabandar Cafe and Mutanabbi Street - before and after they were destroyed.


This movie is part of the collection: Access Humboldt

Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: Access Humboldt; California; Humboldt County; Other

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